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Aescwine of Wessex
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Andrew Murrison
Dr Andrew William Murrison (born 24 April 1961, Colchester) is a doctor and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. After serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westbury from 2001 to 2010, at the 2010 general election he was elected for the new seat of South West Wiltshire.
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Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the Norman conquest of 1066. The Benedictine monk, Bede, writing three centuries later, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes:
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Claire Perry
Claire Louise Perry (born 3 April 1964) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Devizes since the 2010 general election.
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Duncan Hames
Duncan John Hames (born 16 June 1977) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire since the 2010 general election.
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Justin Tomlinson
Justin Paul Tomlinson (born 5 November 1976) is Conservative MP for Swindon North. He was originally a Conservative Councillor for the Swindon Borough Council, becoming one in 2000. He stood in the 2005 General Election, but lost to Labour MP Michael Wills by 2,571 votes. He won the seat from Labour in the 2010 General Election, defeating Labour candidate Victor Agarwall by 7,060 votes. In total, Tomlinson received 22408 votes (44.6% of the vote), with a swing of 10.1% from Labour to the conservatives
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King Wulfhere
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Mercia
Mercia (, ) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce, meaning "border people".
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Richard Jefferies
John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not."
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Robert Buckland
Robert James Buckland (born 22 September 1968) is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon South, having won the seat from the Labour Party at the 2010 general election.
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Seaxburh of Wessex
Seaxburh was a wife of King Cenwalh of Wessex and according to tradition, ruled Wessex as Queen for a year following Cenwalh's death in 674. She should not be confused with her near-contemporary, Saint Seaxburh of Ely, daughter of King Anna of East Anglia.
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Wessex
The Kingdom of Wessex () or Kingdom of the West Saxons () was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of a united English state in the 10th century, under the Wessex dynasty. It was to be an earldom after Canute the Great's conquest of 1016, from 1020 to 1066. After the Norman Conquest there was a dissolution of the English earldoms, and Wessex was split among the followers of William the Conqueror.
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A350 road
The A350 is a north-south primary route in southern England, that runs from the M4 motorway in Wiltshire to Poole in Dorset. Starting at junction 17 of the M4 motorway north of Chippenham it goes past the small village of Lacock and then through the towns of Melksham, Westbury, Warminster, Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum, ending in Poole beside Poole Harbour, an English Channel port There have been many bypasses built along the A350, including at Shaftesbury in the 1950s, Chippenham, Warminster, Blandford Forum and most recently south of Melksham at Semington. Most parts of the route are single carriageway but some of the new bypasses are dual carriageway.
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A417 road
The A417 is a main road in England.
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Amesbury
Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is most famous for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer—dubbed the King of Stonehenge in the press—in 2002. It has a population of 8,907.
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Avebury
Avebury is the site of an ancient monument consisting of a large henge, several stone circles, stone avenues and barrows, surrounding the village of Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is one of the finest and largest Neolithic monuments in Europe, about 5,000 years old. Although older than the megalithic stages of Stonehenge to the south, the two monuments are broadly contemporary overall. Avebury is roughly midway between the towns of Marlborough and Calne, just off the main A4 road on the northbound A4361 towards Wroughton. Avebury is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, a World Heritage Site, and a National Trust property.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath ( or ) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset in the south west of England. It is situated west of London and south-east of Bristol. The population of the city is 83,992. It was granted city status by Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, and was made a county borough in 1889 which gave it administrative independence from its county, Somerset. The city became part of Avon when that county was created in 1974. Since 1996, when Avon was abolished, Bath has been the principal centre of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES;).
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Bedwyn
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Berkshire
Berkshire ( or , abbreviated Berks) is a historic county in the South East of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1958, and letters patent issued confirming this in 1974.
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Blunsdon
Broad Blunsdon is a village in the Borough of Swindon, England, about north of Swindon itself.
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Bowood House
Bowood is a grade I listed Georgian country house with interiors by Robert Adam and a garden designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown. It is adjacent to the village of Derry Hill, halfway between Calne and Chippenham in Wiltshire, England.
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Bradford on Avon
Bradford on Avon (sometimes Bradford-on-Avon) is a town in west Wiltshire, England with a population of about 9,326. The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs and restaurants make it popular with tourists.
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Bristol
Bristol () is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,006,600 residents, it is England's sixth, and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the group of English Core Cities and the most populous city in South West England.
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Bulford
Bulford () is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, close to Salisbury Plain. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,698.
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Calne
Calne () is a town in Wiltshire, southwestern England. It is situated at the northwestern extremity of the North Wessex Downs hill range, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Castle Combe
Castle Combe is a small village in Wiltshire, England, with a population of about 350. It is renowned for its attractiveness and tranquillity, and for fine buildings including the medieval church. The 14th century market cross, erected when the privilege to hold a weekly market in Castle Combe was granted, is situated where the three principal streets converge. Some small stone steps near the cross were for horse riders to mount and dismount and close by are the remains of the buttercross. The village has twice played host to the Combe Sunday event, a music extravaganza which attracted 4,000 visitors to the village in 2006.
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Castle Hill, Mere
Castle Hill is a fairly small yet noticeably steep hill rising from the Northwestern side of Mere, Wiltshire, England. The region is at the Southwestern tip of Salisbury Plain.
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Cherhill White Horse
The Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down, 3.5 miles east of Calne in the county of Wiltshire, England. Dating from the late 18th century, it is the third oldest of several such white horses to be seen around Great Britain, with only the Uffington White Horse and the Westbury White Horse being older. The figure is also sometimes called the Oldbury White Horse.
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Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town in Wiltshire, England, located 21 km (13 miles) east of Bath and 163 km (96 miles) west of London. In the 2001 census the population of the town was recorded as 28,065.
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Chisbury Chapel
Chisbury Chapel is an English Heritage property located near Chisbury, Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire in the United Kingdom.
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Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in north west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south western extreme of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 which was formerly the main turnpike road from London to Bristol, between Bath () and Chippenham ().
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Cotswold Water Park
The Cotswold Water Park is the United Kingdom's largest water park. It consists of 147 numbered lakes which were formed by allowing old gravel quarries to become filled with water. The Western part is located by the A419, on the River Thames (not far from its source) and the River Churn, about five miles south of Cirencester, on the border between Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, near the villages of South Cerney and Ashton Keynes. The Eastern part is near the A417, on the River Coln, lying between Fairford and Lechlade.
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Cotswolds
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England", an area across and long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The highest point in the Cotswolds range is Cleeve Hill at , to the north of Cheltenham.
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Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase () is a Chalk plateau in central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. The plateau is part of the English Chalk Formation and is adjacent to Salisbury Plain and the West Wiltshire Downs in the north, the Dorset Downs to the south west and the South Downs running south east. The scarp slope of the hills is to west, such as at Shaftesbury, and to some extent along the edge of the Vale of Wardour to the north. The chalk gently slopes south and dips under the clays and gravels.
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Cricklade
Cricklade is a small town in north Wiltshire in England, on the River Thames, situated midway between Swindon and Cirencester.
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Dauntsey's School
'''Dauntsey's School''' is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the village of West Lavington, Wiltshire, England. The School was founded in 1542, in accordance with the will of William Dauntesey, a master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.
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Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.
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Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Dover Calais ferry through the Port of Dover. The surrounding chalk cliffs have become known as the White cliffs of Dover, and the narrow sea passage nearby – the Strait of Dover.
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Edington Priory
Edington Priory in Wiltshire, England, was founded by William Edington, the bishop of Winchester, in 1332 in his home village of Edington. The priory church was built between 1352 and 1361.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (abbreviated as Europarl or the EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council), it forms the bicameral legislative branch of the EU and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world. The Parliament and Council form the highest legislative body within the EU. The Parliament is composed of 736 MEPs (Member of the European Parliament), who serve the second largest democratic electorate in the world (after India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world (375 million eligible voters in 2009).
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: , ) is the (political) community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied.
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Florentine
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Fonthill Abbey
Fonthill Abbey — also known as '''Beckford's Folly' — was a large Gothic revival country house built at the turn of the 19th century at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford. It was constructed near the site of the Palladian house, later known as Fonthill Splendens, which was constructed by his father, William Beckford, to replace the Elizabethan house that Beckford père'' had purchased in 1744 and which had been destroyed by fire in 1755. The abbey is now almost all demolished.
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Gloucestershire
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Herefordshire
Herefordshire () is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. It also forms a unitary district known as the County of Herefordshire. It borders the English ceremonial counties of Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh preserved counties of Gwent to the south-west and Powys to the west. Hereford is a cathedral city and is the county town; with a population of approximately 55,700 inhabitants it is also the largest settlement.
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Highworth
Highworth is a market town in the unitary authority of Swindon in Wiltshire, England, located about north-east of Swindon town centre. At the 2001 census it had a population of 7,996. It is often described as the "gateway to the Cotswolds" but only on the recently erected signs, and is notable for its Queen Anne Style architecture and Georgian buildings dating from its pre-eminence in the 18th century.
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Iford Manor
Iford Manor () in Wiltshire sits on the steep slopes of the Frome valley, which itself has been occupied since Roman times. The house is mediaeval in origin, the classical façade having been added in the 18th century when the hanging woodlands above the garden were planted.
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Kennet (district)
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King's Play Hill
'''King's Play Hill''' () is a 29.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971.
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Lacock Abbey
Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order.
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Longleat
:This article is about the stately home and related attractions. There is a separate article covering the Longleat Safari Park.
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Lydiard Country Park
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M4 corridor
The M4 corridor is the area adjacent to the M4 motorway. The area is served by the M4 Motorway and the Great Western Main Line, including its South Wales branch.
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M4 motorway
The M4 motorway links London with South Wales. It is part of the unsigned European route E30. Other major places directly accessible from M4 junctions are Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea. Originally referred to as the London-South Wales Motorway, the English section was constructed between 1965 and 1971, the Welsh section was completed in 1993 and the Second Severn Crossing opened in 1996.
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Malmesbury Abbey
Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex. In 941 AD, King Athelstan was buried in the Abbey. By the 11th century it contained the second largest library in Europe and was considered one of the leading European seats of learning. It was one of the few English houses with a continual history from the seventh century through to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury was of the community.
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Marlborough Downs
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Melksham
Melksham is a medium-sized English town, lying on the River Avon. It lies in the county of Wiltshire.
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Mercia
Mercia (, ) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce, meaning "border people".
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Mere, Wiltshire
Mere is a small town in Wiltshire, England. It lies at the extreme southwestern tip of Salisbury Plain close to the borders of Somerset and Dorset.
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Milk Hill
Milk Hill, located near Alton Priors east of Devizes, is the highest point in the county of Wiltshire, southwest England, at some 295 m / 968 ft above sea level (the adjacent Tan Hill rises to 294 m). It is the location of the Alton Barnes white horse (a hill figure cut in 1812).
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Mompesson House
Mompesson House is an 18th-century house located in the Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The house has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1952.
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North Wiltshire
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Northumberland
Northumberland () is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in the North East of England. It borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and a North Sea coastline of outstanding natural beauty with a 103 km long distance path. Since 1981, the county council has been located in Morpeth, situated in the east of the county.
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Old Sarum Airfield
Old Sarum Airfield is located north northeast of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire ( or ; archaically the County of Oxford; abbreviated Oxon from the Latinised form of "Oxford", Oxonia) is a county in the Midlands region of England, bordering on Warwickshire, Northamptonshire (to the north/northeast), Buckinghamshire (to the east), Berkshire (to the south), Wiltshire and Swindon (to the southwest), Gloucestershire (to the west) and Warwickshire (to the north).
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Philipps House
Philipps House is an early nineteenth-century Neo-Grecian country house at Dinton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The house was designed by Jeffry Wyatt, later Sir Jeffry Wyatville for William Wyndham, and was built between 1813-16 on the site of an earlier, demolished seventeenth-century house, Dinton House, which had been the Wyndham family home. The new house was also called Dinton House, and was known as this until 1916 when it was bought by Bertram Philipps, and was renamed after him. In 1943 Philipps gave the house and of parkland to the National Trust.
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RAF Lyneham
RAF Lyneham is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It is the home of all the Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force. The station is also home to No. 38 Expeditionary Air Wing.
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Redlands Airfield
Redlands Airfield (X2SN) is an unlicenced private airfield in Wanborough, east of Swindon, Wiltshire, a few miles from junction 15 of the M4.
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Salisbury
Salisbury ( , or locally ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England. It has also been called New Sarum to distinguish it from the original site of settlement to the north of the city at Old Sarum, but this alternative name is not in common use.
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Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture.
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Salisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in central southern England covering . It is part of the Southern England Chalk Formation and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, with a little in Hampshire. The plain is famous for its rich archaeology, including Stonehenge, one of England's best known landmarks. Largely as a result of the establishment of the Army Training Estate Salisbury Plain (ATE SP), the plain is sparsely populated and is the largest remaining area of calcareous grassland in north-west Europe. Additionally the plain has arable land, and a few small areas of beech trees and coniferous woodland.
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Salisbury, England
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Shearwater (lake)
Shearwater is a man-made freshwater lake near Crockerton village, close to the town of Warminster in Wiltshire. Part of the Longleat Estate, the lake is surrounded by mature woodland, and is popular with anglers, walkers and cyclists.
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Somerset
Somerset ( or ) is a county in South West England. The county town of Somerset is Taunton, which is in the south of the county. The ceremonial county of Somerset borders the counties of Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the coast of the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the River Severn. The traditional northern border of the county is the River Avon, but the administrative boundary has crept southwards, with the creation and expansion of the City of Bristol, and latterly the county of Avon and its successor Unitary Authorities in the north.
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Southampton Airport
Southampton Airport is the 20th largest airport in the UK, located in the Borough of Eastleigh within Hampshire, England.
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
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Stourhead
Stourhead is a 2,650 acre (11 km²) estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England. The estate includes a Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, gardens, farmland, and woodland. Stourhead has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1946.
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Swindon
Swindon () is a large town within the borough of Swindon and county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east. In the 2001 census, the population of the Swindon urban area was 155,432, while the wider borough of Swindon had a population of 184,000.
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Swindon College
Swindon College is a further education college in Swindon, England. Its campus is at North Star, just outside the town centre. The college has HNC/Ds and Foundation Degrees, through to BA (Hons) courses and a postgraduate programme.
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Tan Hill, Wiltshire
Tan Hill () is a hill which lies just to the north of the village of Allington in the parish of All Cannings, Wiltshire, England.
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Thames Path
The Thames Path is a National Trail, opened in 1996, following the length of the River Thames from its source near Kemble in Gloucestershire to the Thames Barrier at Charlton. It is about long.
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The Courts Garden
The Courts Garden is an English country garden in Holt, near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. The garden has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1943.
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The Ridgeway
The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk ridge of the Berkshire Downs to the River Thames at the Goring Gap, part of the Icknield Way which ran, not always on the ridge, from Salisbury Plain to East Anglia. The route was adapted and extended as a National Trail, created in 1972. The Ridgeway National Trail follows the ancient Ridgeway from Overton Hill, near Avebury, to Streatley, then follows footpaths and parts of the ancient Icknield Way through the Chiltern Hills to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire. The National Trail is long.
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Tidworth
Tidworth is a town in south-east Wiltshire, England with a growing civilian population. Situated at the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain, it is approximately 10 miles west of Andover, 12 miles south of Marlborough, 24 miles south of Swindon, 15 miles north by north-east of Salisbury and 6 miles east of Amesbury. Its population is approximately 9,500.
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Tisbury, Wiltshire
The small town of Tisbury lies approximately west of Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire.
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Vale of Pewsey
The Vale of Pewsey or Pewsey Vale is an area of Wiltshire, England to the east of Devizes and south of Marlborough, centred on the town of Pewsey.
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Warminster
Warminster is a town in western Wiltshire, England, by-passed by the A36, and near Frome and Westbury. It has a population of about 17,000. The River Were runs through the town and can be seen running through the middle of the town park. The Minster Church of St Denys sits on the River Were. The name Warminster first occurs in the early 10th century.
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Wessex
The Kingdom of Wessex () or Kingdom of the West Saxons () was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of a united English state in the 10th century, under the Wessex dynasty. It was to be an earldom after Canute the Great's conquest of 1016, from 1020 to 1066. After the Norman Conquest there was a dissolution of the English earldoms, and Wessex was split among the followers of William the Conqueror.
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Westbury, Wiltshire
Westbury is a town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire, most famous for the Westbury White Horse.
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Westwood Manor
Westwood Manor is a 15th-century manor house with 16th century additions and 17th century plaster-work situated near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. It contains fine furniture and tapestries collected by Edgar Lister between 1911 and 1956. It has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1956.
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Wilton House
Wilton House is an English country house situated at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire. It has been the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years.
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Wilton Windmill
The Wilton Windmill is a five floor brick tower mill located on a chalk ridge between the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It was built in 1821 because the construction of the Kennet and Avon Canal had included the canalisation of the River Bedwyn which had previously powered several water mills in the area.
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Wilton, Wiltshire
Wilton is a town in Wiltshire, (of which it was once the county town), England, with a rich heritage dating back to the Anglo-Saxons. Today it is dwarfed by its larger and more famous neighbour, Salisbury, but still has a range of notable shops and attractions, including Wilton House.
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Wiltshire College
Wiltshire College is a tertiary college of education founded in 2002 by the merger of Chippenham Technical College, Lackham College and Trowbridge College. Consolidation will be completed with the merger of Salisbury College, which commenced in January 2008. The college has over 3000 full-time students and 300 teaching staff.
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Woodhenge
Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury.
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Wroughton is a large village in Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and is south of Swindon.
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Wiltshire
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- Published: 19 Jul 2009
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- Author: wiltshireweb
A quick tour of Wiltshire by www.wiltshire-web.co.uk Free music by DanoSongs.com
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Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera
Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.
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Stephen Wiltshire draws Brisbane skyline
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- Duration: 4:44
- Published: 26 Nov 2011
- Uploaded: 01 Dec 2011
- Author: stephenwiltshire
Genius artist Stephen Wiltshire takes to Brisbane skies then lands to showcase unique talent.
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Time lapse of Brisbane Panorama by Stephen Wiltshire
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- Duration: 2:48
- Published: 29 Nov 2011
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2011
- Author: stephenwiltshire
Time lapse vision shows British artist Stephen Wiltshire taking four days to complete a panoramic drawing of Brisbane after one viewing of the city.
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Stephen Wiltshire draws Tokyo from memory
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- Duration: 7:20
- Published: 02 Oct 2006
- Uploaded: 30 Nov 2011
- Author: stephenwiltshire
One of Stephen's extraordinary abilities is to memorize landscapes up to the highest detail. During this flight he had a thorough look at the view of the Japanese capital from the helicopter including thousands of buildings, towers, high-ways, cars, buses, even down to intricate details of trees and windows. Following the 30 minutes ride Stephen seemed to be very excited and ready for the challenge.
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Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire
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- Duration: 5:22
- Published: 07 Apr 2007
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- Author: stephenwiltshire
Artist Stephen Wiltshire draws Rome. For more details, visit www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk.
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STONEHENGE -Wiltshire, England
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- Duration: 3:31
- Published: 12 Sep 2008
- Uploaded: 01 Dec 2011
- Author: LearnFree2007
Quick guide Age estimated at 3100 BC Location Wiltshire, UK OS Reference SU 122 422 Type of stone Bluestone, Sarsen, Welsh Sandstone Worship Lunar, Solar Access English Heritage - there is a charge to visit the stones Extra notes Except on special occasions, visitors are unable to walk amongst the stones This was created from Audio made for a British Airways audio cassette tour of the UK South of England. Written and narrated by Blain Fairman in 1990. Audio production by Robert Nichol AudioProductions London. pictures added to this version 2008 by Robert Nichol to create a Youtube video Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. Archaeologists believe that the iconic stone monument was erected around 2500 BC, however this was not the first stone structure on the site The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury henge monument, and it is also a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge itself is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage while the surrounding land is <b>...</b>
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Wiltshire's NYC Matches Up
Artist Stephen Wiltshire's detailed drawing of NYC from memory is compared with real images of the Big Apple. Michelle Gielan speaks to Stephen about his experience in New York.
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Stephen Wiltshire draws Rome from memory
Stephen Wiltshire is a British man who was diagnosed as autistic when he was a child. He's also been noted for his exacting memory, which allows him to recreate [in drawings] vast scenes he sees only once. This video shows his 16-foot-panorama of Rome after taking one helicopter ride above the city.
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Stephen Wiltshire in UBS campaign - "We will not rest"
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- Published: 15 Jul 2011
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- Author: stephenwiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire's most recent panorama drawing - created in New York in April 2011 - is now displayed at JFK airport on a giant 250ft billboard. It is a part of a global advertising campaign for the Swiss bank UBS that carries the theme "We will not rest", the New York Times reports.
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Stephen Wiltshire draws Hong Kong from memory
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- Duration: 1:04
- Published: 20 Mar 2007
- Uploaded: 25 Sep 2011
- Author: stephenwiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire is a British artist. He became famous as the best child artist in Britain and published his first bestseller book at the age of 12. In 2006 he was awarded an MBE and became the member of the British Empire. His artistic skills and extraordinary photographic memory has been challenged several times, at this time in Hong Kong. (www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk)
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Camera Man - The miracle of the brain!!
Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.
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Stephen Wiltshire draws Manhattan from memory
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- Duration: 1:23
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 30 Nov 2011
- Author: stephenwiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire has an incredible gift. The London based artist is able to draw stunningly detailed landscapes all from memory. Sydney, London, Los Angeles, he has drawn them all. Now he is conquering his biggest city yet, New York.
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New Crop Circle 25th July at Etchilhampton, Wiltshire, UK!
New stunning Crop Circle reported 25th July at Etchilhampton, Wiltshire, UK! This one with intricate basket weave at the outer rim. 3D effects in the main construction.
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New Crop Circles 2011 Avebury in Wiltshire, UK 28 May 2011
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- Published: 28 May 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Oct 2011
- Author: latestcropcircles
Rear more about this interesting latest crop circle found in The Sanctuary near Averbury in Wiltshire, UK on Saturday, 28th May 2011 here: www.ecropcircles.com
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Stephen Wiltshire: the human camera now is in japan!
This guy is just absolutely amazing. If you ever kill someone you better pray to god he is not around. He can probably describe you down to your DNA to the FBI.
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Stephen Wiltshire's Madrid Panorama
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 07 Feb 2008
- Uploaded: 03 Nov 2011
- Author: stephenwiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire draws Madrid on a five meter canvas from memory following a short helicopter ride over the city. www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk
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Stephen Wiltshire opens his gallery in London
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- Published: 28 Jun 2009
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Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike representations of cities from memory. Follow him on twitter twitter.com
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UFO, Wiltshire, UK 25.07.2011
Case Number: 31190 Log Number: GB-08262011-0017 Submitted Date: 2011-08-26 15:13 GMT Event Date: 2011-07-25 00:00 GMT Status: Submitted City: London Country: GB Longitude: -0.1262362 Latitude: 51.5001524 Shape: Blimp,Fireball,Oval,Sphere,Star-like Distance: Over one mile Description: On 25.07.2011 I was camping in Wiltshire UK, Tan Hill (294m above sea level). I like studying crop circle and observe a sky. That evening at around 9PM I saw bright light in the sky. Was too early for any stars to be visible, and this light was looking brighter than any planet. First I thought it was a airplane. I grabbed my camera and zoomed in to the object. Tho having small display on my Sony HDR-SR10E camcorder, and after I zoomed in, I have realised that this was a disk like shaped object, tilted at around 45º of its horizontal axes, with a soft "wobbly blinking" like light around. This object was solid and light was only as an extra aura like around. Gradually this object was traveling to the right and after few minutes it begun to fade out. When this light and an object has shrink, I still saw random blinking of its light, and it looked like as it was taking its last breath before has disappeared from my view. It wasn't a first time when I film or photograph UFO's, but this one was in the sky for the longest time I ever saw. I was exited and happy to be where I am, and my adrenaline scale has jumped to the top. At the time I did not suspected it was just a beginning of a light show I <b>...</b>
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Stephen Wiltshire - Person of the week
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- Duration: 2:43
- Published: 26 Feb 2008
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Stephen appeared on ABC News Good Morning America on the 13th of February 2008. Stephen wowed the viewers with a quick sketch of Piccadilly Circus after a 10 minutes glimpse of the landmark. Stephen has also been named as Person of The Week on ABC World News with Charles Gibson. Nick Watt and Olivia Sterns reports.
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Crop circles: Stonehenge, Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire, UK 20 June 2011
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- Published: 21 Jun 2011
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New crop circles 2011 found in Stonehenge near Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire, United Kingdom on Monday, 20th June 2011. Read more here: www.ecropcircles.com
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3 new cropcircles wiltshire 25 july 2011
West Kennett, Nr Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 25th July. Etchilhampton, nr Devizes, Wiltshire. Reported 25th July. Roundway Hill (2), nr Devizes, Wiltshire. Reported 25th July. images www.cropcircleconnector.com
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UFO, Wiltshire, UK 25.07.2011 (part 1) ?????
On 25.07.2011 I was camping in Wiltshire UK, Tan Hill (294m above sea level). I like studying crop circle and observe a sky. That evening at around 9PM I saw bright light in the sky. Was too early for any stars to be visible, and this light was looking brighter than any planet. First I thought it was a airplane. I grabbed my camera and zoomed in to the object. Tho having small display on my Sony HDR-SR10E camcorder, and after I zoomed in, I have realised that this was a disk like shaped object, tilted at around 45º of its horizontal axes, with a soft "wobbly blinking" like light around. At the time I did not suspected it was just a beginning of a light show I saw that evening. 5 minutes later, another light has appeared in sky. I zoomed in to the second object which was about 30 km left from the previous one. This light was pretty much at the same hight, but it was much brighter and chaotically blinking. At some point this light becomes so bright that I was unable to see any solid physical shape behind. Tho at some point it become less bright and disk like object was visible again and like the first one, was tilted at around 45º of its horizontal axes as well. Later on, these lights wore back in the sky in the same and / or different location, but all wore almost at the same hight. Some of them wore on for longer time and some just for a minute. On numerous occasion I saw more than one object / light at the time. See link www.youtube.com There was like one main bright <b>...</b>
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Wiltshire is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys. Salisbury Plain is famous as the location of the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles and other ancient landmarks and as the main training area in the UK of the British Army. The city of Salisbury is notable for its medieval cathedral. Important country houses open to the public include Longleat, near Warminster, and the National Trust's Stourhead, near Mere.
Toponymy
The county, in the 9th century written as Wiltunscir, later Wiltonshire, is named after the former county town of Wilton, itself named after the river Wylye, one of eight rivers which drain the county.
History
Wiltshire is notable for its pre-Roman archaeology. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. Stonehenge and Avebury are perhaps the most famous Neolithic sites in the UK.In the 6th and 7th centuries Wiltshire was at the western edge of Saxon Britain, as Cranborne Chase and the Somerset Levels prevented the advance to the west. The Battle of Bedwyn was fought in 675 between Escuin, a West Saxon nobleman who had seized the throne of Queen Saxburga, and King Wulfhere of Mercia. In 878 the Danes invaded the county. Following the Norman Conquest, large areas of the country came into the possession of the crown and the church.
At the time of the Domesday Survey the industry of Wiltshire was largely agricultural; 390 mills are mentioned, and vineyards at Tollard and Lacock. In the succeeding centuries sheep-farming was vigorously pursued, and the Cistercian monasteries of Kingswood and Stanley exported wool to the Florentine and Flemish markets in the 13th and 14th centuries.
In the 17th century English Civil War Wiltshire was largely Parliamentarian. The Battle of Roundway Down, a decisive Royalist victory, was fought near Devizes.
Around 1800 the Kennet and Avon Canal was built through Wiltshire providing a route for transporting cargoes from Bristol to London until the development of the Great Western Railway.
Information on the 261 civil parishes of Wiltshire is available on the Wiltshire Community History website, run by the Libraries and Heritage services of Wiltshire County Council. This site includes maps, demographic data, historic and modern pictures and short histories.
The Moonrakers
The local nickname for Wiltshire natives is moonrakers. This originated from a story of smugglers who managed to foil the local Excise men by hiding their alcohol, possibly French brandy in barrels or kegs, in a village pond. When confronted by the excise men they raked the surface in order to conceal the submerged contraband with ripples, and claimed that they were trying to rake in a large round cheese visible in the pond, really a reflection of the full moon. The officials took them for simple yokels or mad and left them alone, allowing them to continue with their illegal activities. Many villages claim the tale for their own village pond, but the story is most commonly linked with The Crammer in Devizes.
Geology, landscape and ecology
Two thirds of Wiltshire, a mostly rural county, lies on chalk, a kind of soft, white, porous limestone that is resistant to erosion, giving it a high chalk downland landscape. This chalk is part of the Southern England Chalk Formation that underlies large areas of Southern England from the Dorset Downs in the west to Dover in the east. The largest area of chalk in Wiltshire is Salisbury Plain, a semi-wilderness used mainly for arable agriculture and by the British Army as training ranges. The highest point in the county is the Tan Hill–Milk Hill ridge in the Pewsey Vale, just to the north of Salisbury Plain, at 295 m (968 ft) above sea level.
The chalk uplands run northeast into West Berkshire in the Marlborough Downs ridge, and southwest into Dorset as Cranborne Chase. Cranborne Chase, which straddles the border, has, like Salisbury Plain, yielded much Stone Age and Bronze Age archaeology. The Marlborough Downs are part of the North Wessex Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), a 1,730 km2 (668 square mile) conservation area.
In the northwest of the county, on the border with South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset, the underlying rock is the resistant oolite limestone of the Cotswolds. Part of the Cotswolds AONB is also in Wiltshire, in the county's northwestern corner.
Between the areas of chalk and limestone downland are clay valleys and vales. The largest of these vales is the Avon Vale. The Avon cuts diagonally through the north of the county, flowing through Bradford on Avon and into Bath and Bristol. The Vale of Pewsey has been cut through the chalk into Greensand and Oxford Clay in the centre of the county. In the south west of the county is the Vale of Wardour. The southeast of the county lies on the sandy soils of the northernmost area of the New Forest.
Chalk is a porous rock so the chalk hills have little surface water. The main settlements in the county are therefore situated at wet points. Notably, Salisbury is situated between the chalk of Salisbury Plain and marshy flood plains.
Climate
Along with the rest of South West England, Wiltshire has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country. The annual mean temperature is approximately . Seasonal temperature variation is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom because of the adjacent sea temperatures. The summer months of July and August are the warmest with mean daily maxima of approximately . In winter mean minimum temperatures of or are common. In the summer the Azores high pressure affects the south-west of England, however convective cloud sometimes forms inland, reducing the number of hours of sunshine. Annual sunshine rates are slightly less than the regional average of 1,600 hours. In December 1998 there were 20 days without sun recorded at Yeovilton. Most the rainfall in the south-west is caused by Atlantic depressions or by convection. Most of the rainfall in autumn and winter is caused by the Atlantic depressions, which is when they are most active. In summer, a large proportion of the rainfall is caused by sun heating the ground leading to convection and to showers and thunderstorms. Average rainfall is around . About 8–15 days of snowfall is typical. November to March have the highest mean wind speeds, and June to August have the lightest winds. The predominant wind direction is from the south-west.
Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added (GVA) of Wiltshire at current basic prices with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.| Year | Regional gross value added| | Agriculture | Industry | Services |
| 1995 | 4,354| | 217 | 1,393 | 2,743 |
| 2000 | 5,362| | 148 | 1,566 | 3,647 |
| 2003 | 6,463| | 164 | 1,548 | 4,751 |
The Wiltshire economy benefits from the "M4 corridor effect", which attracts business, and the attractiveness of its countryside, towns and villages. The northern part of the county is richer than the southern part, particularly since Swindon is home to national and international corporations such as Honda, Intel, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Patheon, Catalent (formerly known as Cardinal Health), Becton-Dickinson, WHSmith, Early Learning Centre and Nationwide, with Dyson located in nearby Malmesbury. Wiltshire’s employment structure is distinctive in having a significantly higher number of people in various forms of manufacturing (especially electrical equipment and apparatus, food products, and beverages, furniture, rubber, pharmaceuticals, and plastic goods) than the national average.
In addition, there is higher than average employment in public administration and defence, due to the military establishments around the county, particularly around Amesbury and Corsham. There are sizeable British Army barracks at Tidworth, Bulford and Warminster, and further north RAF Lyneham is home to the RAF's Hercules C130 fleet. Wiltshire is also distinctive in having a high proportion of its working age population who are economically active – (86.6% in 1999–2000), and its low unemployment rates. The gross domestic product (GDP) level in Wiltshire did not reach the UK average in 1998, and was only marginally above the rate for South West England.
Education
Wiltshire has twenty-nine county secondary schools, publicly funded, of which the largest is Warminster Kingdown, and another thirteen independent secondaries, including Marlborough College, St Mary's Calne, and Dauntsey's. The county schools are nearly all comprehensives, with the older pattern of education surviving only in Salisbury, which has two grammar schools (South Wilts Grammar School for Girls and Bishop Wordsworth's School) and three secondary moderns. All but two of the county secondary schools in the former districts of West Wiltshire and North Wiltshire have Sixth forms, but only half of those in the rest of the county.Wiltshire Council operates Urchfont Manor College, which is a residential adult education college. There are also three further education colleges, New College, Swindon, Wiltshire College and Swindon College, providing some higher education.
As yet there are no universities within Wiltshire, except that Bath Spa University has a small campus at Corsham Court and Oxford Brookes University maintains a minor campus in Swindon (almost 50 km from Oxford). Early outline plans for a projected University of Swindon or University of Wiltshire were announced by the Borough of Swindon in November 2008, but the scheme remains uncommitted. Swindon is the UK's largest centre of population without its own university. The closest university to Wiltshire's county town of Trowbridge is the University of Bath. Wiltshire is therefore one of the few remaining English counties, including Herefordshire and Northumberland, without a university or university college.
Demographics
The county registered a population of 613,024 in the Census 2001. The population density is low at . In 1991 there were 230,109 dwellings in the county. In 1991 98.3% of the population was indigenous and 17.9% of the population were over 65.Population of Wiltshire:
Politics and administration
The ceremonial county of Wiltshire consists of two unitary authority areas, Wiltshire and Swindon, governed respectively by Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council.Until the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, Wiltshire (apart from Swindon) was a two-level county, divided into four local government districts, Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire, which existed alongside Wiltshire County Council, covering the same area and carrying out more strategic tasks, such as education and county roads. However, on 1 April 2009 these five local authorities were merged into a single unitary authority called Wiltshire Council. With the abolition of the District of Salisbury, a new Salisbury City Council was created at the same time to carry out several city-wide functions and to hold the City's charter.
As a result of elections held in 2009, Wiltshire Council comprises 61 Conservatives, 24 Liberal Democrats, eight Independents, three Devizes Guardians and two Labour members. The council is led by Jane Scott (Conservative), who had previously led the former Wiltshire County Council since 2003.
At the parliamentary level, rural Wiltshire is represented by four Conservative and one Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament, while the predominantly urban area of Swindon is represented by two Conservative Members.
Sport
The county is represented in the Football League by Swindon Town, who play at the County Ground stadium near Swindon town centre. They joined the Football League on the creation of the Third Division in 1920, and have remained in the league ever since. Their most notable achievements include winning the Football League Cup in 1969 and the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1970, two successive promotions in 1986 and 1987 (taking them from the Fourth Division to the Second), promotion to the Premier League as Division One play-off winners in 1993 (as inaugural members), the Division Two title in 1996, and their recent promotion to League One in 2007 after finishing third in League Two.Salisbury City played in the Conference Premier League however they entered administration in the Summer of 2009 and now play in the Southern League Premier Division as of Summer 2010 due to a breach of Conference rules. They are currently two leagues under Conference National Level.
Swindon Robins Speedway team, who compete in the Sky Elite League, have been at their track at the Blunsdon Abbey Stadium since 1949.
Rich Benke, the international snowboarder, hails from Chippenham in Wiltshire. He currently resides in Whistler, Canada.
Principal settlements
Wiltshire has twenty-one towns and one city:
Places of interest
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Transport
Road
Roads running through Wiltshire include The Ridgeway, an ancient route, and Roman roads the Fosse Way, London to Bath road and Ermin Way. National Cycle Route 4 and the Thames Path, a modern long distance footpath, run through the county.Routes through Wiltshire include:
Canal
Rail
Three main railway routes, all of which carry passenger traffic, cross Wiltshire.The major junction stations are Salisbury and Westbury, and important junctions are also found at Swindon and Trowbridge.
Air
Airfields in Wiltshire include Old Sarum Airfield, Clench Common Airfield and Redlands Airfield. RAF Lyneham is an air transport hub for British forces. Airports for scheduled airlines near Wiltshire include Bristol International Airport, Bristol Filton Airport, Gloucestershire Airport, London Oxford Airport, London Heathrow Airport and Southampton Airport.
See also
References and footnotes
External links
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